A sign of the times possibly, as more people seek out cars that are a little more fuel efficient and cost effective, than vehicles they’ve owned in the past?
British car Mini is now more popular in the US than in the UK, where it is made. About 45,000 Minis were sold in the US [...]
The British made Mini is more popular in US than at home
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 15 January, 2010 to the trends subset
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Fund your startup (or retirement) by getting rid of your TV
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 to the comment subset
Watching TV becomes an expensive past time if you take the hourly rate of your present job and calculate it by your number of viewing hours.
To put it into perspective, if you watch an average of 31.5 hours of TV each week (which the average person in the US does) and you value your time [...]
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Have a lazy $15 Septillion? Why not buy the Death Star
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 February, 2009 to the comment subset
For $15 Septillion or $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226 (excluding labour costs), you could build your own Death Star.
I’ve completely ignored such pesky things like cost of ground transportation, cost of construction in space, variety of material costs, time of construction and change of economy over time, gravitation effects, whether or not slave labour was used, why did Darth [...]
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The cost of fonts: quality comes at a price
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 December, 2008 to the comment subset
Ben Barry of Questionable Characters, the web’s latest and greatest (no pun intended) font of wisdom, on the pricing of fonts.
Having designed a fair amount of my own type I understand how much time and effort it takes to develop a good font family. I think most fonts are reasonably priced for large projects and [...]
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Addendum
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 1 September, 2007 to the comment subset
Next week
1
man, US President, George W Bush will visit Sydney, Australia, for
5
days. He will travel in Air Force One which will be one of
3
747 Jumbo jets his entourage will fly in. A further
5
transport aircraft will accompany the Jumbos, carrying
2
helicopters (including Marine One, his official chopper), more than
20
motor vehicles including
1
ambulance
2
Presidential limousines, and
18
secret service and other [...]
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